Volume 3 Hello, Eri Chapter 340: Blurred Dark Phase (I)
A small MINI COOPER was stopping and starting on the sparsely populated streets. Its large, round headlights and unique flat roof and short tail design made this car look cute in the eyes of many girls.
"Wow, it's only been two years since I last saw this place, and there's already a new shopping mall! How great would it be if it was still here when I was in school? Just across the street there's an all-in-one shopping mall for food, drinks and entertainment!"
Xia Mi leaned on the car window and looked out. In the past two years, this city has indeed been changing at an unimaginable speed. Back then, it could only be regarded as a second-tier city. It was only because it was located in the Yangtze River Delta and was a member of the Yangtze River Delta Economic Development Zone that it was able to get on the fast track of development.
The CBD area had just been built at that time, and there were glass-walled skyscrapers there, while my uncle's neighborhood was still gray, with wall-mounted air-conditioning units hanging all over the exterior walls, dripping water with a crackling sound in the summer.
Shilan Middle School was the most impressive middle school at that time. It was considered a foreign-related school that could recruit foreigners . It was envied by all other schools because of its 400-meter rubber track. However, its facade was not very impressive. It had a large black iron gate and a red brick wall, and sycamore trees were planted in front of the gate.
Now all the sycamore trees on both sides of the road have been cut down. All kinds of luxury sports cars are speeding back and forth at high speed. There are countless construction sites working at the same time nearby. Excavators are rumbling and the air is filled with smoke and dust. Lu Mingfei can't see the eye-catching red brick wall of Shilan Middle School at all.
“Even if there was such a shopping mall at that time, you might not have the money, right?” Lu Mingfei teased with a smile. She is the exclusive driver of this MINI COOPER, and this car is also the first car that truly belongs to her in her life, and she paid for it in full herself.
She still remembered that when she first met Xia Mi through online chatting, Xia Mi always expressed intentionally or unintentionally that she was not well-off. Now, it seems that a Dragon King has ways to make money. Just look at how quickly Samson integrated into this society. But at that time, Xia Mi probably still believed that if she acted, she had to do it well. She was serious about being a good girl every day. After school, she would work part-time at a convenience store, and the little money she earned was enough to get by in the cafeteria.
"I can hook up with a rich guy!" Xia Mi twisted her shoulders, with a domineering look on her face, "Are there not many rich second-generations in Shilan Middle School? With my beauty, Chu Zihang would be trembling with fear with just a little trick. How can I not win over others?"
"It's great to be pretty. You can do whatever you want." Lu Mingfei couldn't help but think of her miserable childhood, which seemed to have happened only a few years ago. She was easily not included in every party because it cost money and she didn't have it.
"Stop sighing, you are also a blingbling girl now! The school belle of Kassel College is N levels higher than the school belle of Shilan Middle School!" Xia Mi moved towards Lu Mingfei from the passenger seat, pinched her chin and lifted it up, as if to show off to someone.
"There is no such thing as campus belle in the academy. There is only a ranking of the girls in Kassel that you most want to marry." Zero in the back seat interrupted the conversation calmly, "But she did win first place."
The three of them are the Chinese Olympic team of Kassel Academy. Ling and Xia Mi are teammates selected by Lu Mingfei personally. In fact, Nono should have been there, but Nono had things he had to do.
As for Japan, there are still some familiar friends who can be used as help, such as the Genji brothers and Eri, but Lu Mingfei promised Eri that she would let her be an ordinary girl again. The cooperation between New Kassel Academy and the Eight Snake Families also requires the help of the Genji brothers. An excellent army should be based on quality rather than quantity, and these two people around him are just right.
Ling, a man with a paralyzed face but extremely skilled in combat, is as fierce in close combat as Chu Zihang, and his Word Spirit Mirror Eyes can even counter any move of his Sharingan. Xia Mi, although a dragon king who has lost his power, is as familiar with dragon knowledge as a Xinhua Dictionary, and she has even seen Odin, so she is undoubtedly the second best candidate.
Finally, there is actually a local assistant, and they are driving so slowly because they are waiting for someone.
The car finally stopped at the intersection opposite Shilan Middle School. Lu Mingfei looked at her watch, put down her arms and counted the time silently in her mind. When the second hand completely coincided with the agreed moment, someone opened the back door, sat in, and fanned herself with the documents in her hand.
"It's so hot! Can you turn the air conditioner down a little lower?" Samson was like a salted fish rolling on the road in midsummer, basically lying down like Ge You, carefree.
"No problem." Lu Mingfei lowered the temperature of the air conditioner and handed over the bottle of mineral water in front of her. "How's the situation?"
"According to what you said, I have checked everything that happened in this city on that rainy night, but I am exhausted." Samson handed the information he had collected to Lu Mingfei. "The road conditions in the whole city were very bad due to heavy rain that night. Four reported traffic accidents occurred that night. One of them was the one you encountered. I found the location of their accident. There is indeed a road leading to the viaduct on that street. But the viaduct is numbered 10, not number 0 where you went. That place does not exist at all."
Lu Mingfei flipped through the stack of information that was sent to her. Chu Zihang would recall every detail of what happened that day every night, but Lu Mingfei didn't need to do that at all, and she could remember it clearly. That was the day that changed her destiny, how could she forget it?
Her memory was very clear. Just before the Maybach turned onto the viaduct, they had encountered a car accident. At that time, Chu Tianjiao complained that the two people were blocking the road like idiots and arguing. There was no need, anyway, the insurance company would cover it. It was this sentence that made Lu Mingfei remember it clearly. Before she arrived here, she called Samson to entrust her to investigate the traffic accident that happened that day.
Although many years had passed, there were only a few well-known insurance companies in the city, and with Samson's efficiency, he had checked almost all of them in a few days. From an old database of a certain company, the manager with a beer belly found the way to enter the viaduct.
It was not far from Shilan Middle School. Lu Mingfei stepped hard on the accelerator, the tires made a startling sound as they scratched the ground, and the car made a 180-degree turn and headed towards the long road of destiny.
"Nibelungen needs water as a medium. It's useless to go there now, but we can go and take a look first. Maybe I can match more details when we are on the spot." Lu Mingfei said.
The car display shows that the temperature today is as high as 38 degrees. In this case, the hood of the MINI COOPER can basically be used to fry eggs after being exposed to the sun for an hour. Without enough water, Odin cannot come to the real world from the plane of Nibelung. He is a ghost imprisoned in that world.
"You're the boss, you have the final say!" Samson lay down lazily, feeling that the posture seemed as if she could turn into a puddle of water at any time.
"Hi! Silver-haired Dragon Girl Sansan-chan, I've seen your video!" Xia Mi poked her head out from the front seat to greet him, "But you don't have silver hair at all!"
"It's just an ID I typed casually , because I found that Chinese people nowadays like to have gray hair, just like many years ago, everyone was proud of having white hair and a young face. This is a hobby in their bones." Samson stretched out his hand and gestured to Xia Mi in a friendly manner, "Hello, Jörmungandr! I say hello to you on behalf of my master and I! The last time we met was many years ago. At that time, you were not as cute as you are now. You could blow me up to the sky with just your mouth."
In this team, the identities of Samson, Xia Mi, and Ling are no longer a secret, because Lu Mingfei has communicated with everyone in advance that facing Odin directly is a dangerous thing and requires everyone to go all out. It is best not to wait until the critical moment to be surprised by each other that you are that person. It is better to get things out earlier.
"Let's not talk about the past. How is my brother?" Xia Mi waved her hand, indicating that they should not always talk about the past. Now everyone is a member of the beautiful girl fighting team, so they should speak based on their current identities.
"He's quite a homebody. In the past two years, he's almost finished all the console games on the market with platinum. He's really good at playing games. I actually brought him with me this time! He came along because he knew you were coming, but he didn't want to run around. He just told his monsters to follow me and work for me."
Samson sighed, "You know, the white elephant spirit, the big peng spirit, the lion spirit, they all look like the stuff from Journey to the West 1986. Every time they go to a place, people think they are cosplayers and scramble to take pictures with them. But it has helped me a little bit, it's better than letting me run alone. Now they should all be staying in the hotel and enjoying life. If you have something to say, just talk to me, if not, don't disturb me. I told your brother that your sister is coming, aren't you going to see her? Your brother said that my sister will come to see me anyway, and the eunuchs are anxious when the emperor is not."
"When the child grows up, he starts to rebel!" Xia Mi's face was full of black lines. It was hard to imagine that this sentence actually came from Fenrir's mouth. It seemed that modern society had corrupted dragons. Maybe that guy played too much on the Internet and almost turned into a forum brother. He always talked about Dian Ma Ji Xiao... If he really turned into that kind of bad boy, Xia Mi would have to beat his butt until it was broken.
"It's okay, I'm watching you. Last time I caught your brother secretly looking at photos of beauties in swimsuits, I slapped him so hard that he spun his chair ten times, and shouted, "Are other women that pretty? Those are humans, not dragons, and they are not the same style as you. If you want to see swimsuits, you can come to me, your sister. With my angelic face and devilish figure, won't I be able to crush those internet celebrities who use beauty cameras every day?" Samson looked proud.
"But from our human perspective, you are an old woman!" Lu Mingfei laughed and interrupted, steering firmly in her hands, "No matter how pretty the Child-Father of Tianshan is, she can't compare to a girl in her early twenties, right? You speak in an old-fashioned way, which makes people feel pressured."
"That's where you're wrong. People are visual animals. As long as they look good, age doesn't matter, especially men, including male dragons! Look, didn't Ning Caichen fall in love with Nie Xiaoqian? And Xiaoqian is a human and a ghost! The scholars in ancient times recited the three obediences and four virtues every day, but they were scared to death when they saw a beautiful female ghost! I can tell at a glance that you haven't read enough novels!" Samson's face was full of contempt.
"What does this have to do with reading novels?" Xia Mi didn't understand.
" Novels are all the same. You think that what people write nowadays is innovative, but in fact, the ancients have already mastered it!" Samson waved his hands, looking like he understood everything. "In the past, when I read novels written by ancient people, they were all about scholars meeting beautiful girls. The other party was either the daughter of a prime minister or a royal aristocrat, or at least a well-educated girl raised in a secluded boudoir in a mansion. But this girl just happened to like a poor scholar and fell in love with him at first sight. Why? If you read novels on the Internet now, isn't it the same routine? It seems that the heroines are all idiots, and they must ruin their lives if they meet the hero!"
“So you know a lot about it?” Lu Mingfei raised her eyebrows.
“Please, my experience is not comparable to that of a little girl like you. Get your senior brother first, then talk to me about love! To be honest, I have been thinking about writing a novel recently. I will write you, Lu Mingfei, as the protagonist. I will write you as a naive idiot, and then you meet Chu Zihang, and you lose your soul at the first sight, cry, drink poison, and hang yourself, saying that I will not marry anyone else in this life!” Samson laughed so hard that his body shook. “The title of the book is, "I, Lu Mingfei! I will not marry anyone else but Chu Zihang!"”
"Hey! Just tease me, don't develop it into personal attacks!" Lu Mingfei was afraid that this guy would get serious, so she quickly surrendered.
After being in human society for a long time, Samson became more and more shameless, and his tone was a bit like a weird uncle who was chatting up pretty girls on the street. Lu Mingfei always felt that this guy seemed to be very satisfied with his current life, and the rich modern entertainment could easily corrupt even a dragon.
At this rate, Samsun's name in the household registration book can be changed to Lu Samsun. She can directly become a sister of Lu Mingfei. With the addition of Xia Mi, the three of them can talk about Zhuge Liang from being buried to standing up from the coffin.
"Hi! Hello, Sister Ling!" Samson had enough fun and turned to look at Ling. In fact, she hadn't seen Lu Mingfei for a long time and wanted to have some fun.
"Hello, Samson." Zero's reaction was very calm. He just nodded slightly, as if he was greeting someone he was not very interested in. It was just a polite response, but he didn't intend to say more words.
She might be the only normal girl in the team. The others were either too cheerful or too neurotic. The other three were simply birds of a feather. Their combined lethality was about equal to that of a group of quacking ducks. Their laughter was not like that of a young lady ringing a bell, but like that of a monk in Hanshan Temple ringing the bell.
But a team always needs a decent person to keep things in order. If even Master Tang Seng also falls into depravity, then the team will be doomed. It is only with Sun Wukong as a check that Zhu Bajie cannot disperse his group and return to Gao Laozhuang, right? In this regard, Miss Ling must shoulder the heavy responsibility.
